Figure 15.11

[MC2511]

Will there be more context to the DAGs in chapter 15? It's unclear of what it's emphasizing. It'll be super helpful if there's more text describing what it means to have actual is missing and how it relates to the DAG and for posted is missing how it relates to the DAG.

[malcolmbarrett]

Could you expand on this? I don't really understand what you are asking

[MC2511]

I think I'm having a hard time understanding the 5 DAGs in figure 15.11. The figure legend describes the first three DAG represent missingness in actual and DAG 4 and 5 represents missingness in posted. Though the text describes them as simple DAGs that have different structure of missingness but I have no clue on how to interpret them and how does it show missingness. DAG 2 ,4 look the same and DAG 3 and 5 also look the same. The DAGs have the missing nodes in them but doesn't clarify how for example DAG 1 in figure 15.11 show that the "'actual' is missing".